Case 34: The Catholic Mafia

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🗓️ 24 September 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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[WARNING – This episode deals with child sex abuse. It will not be suitable for all listeners.]

In the early 1960s, Victorian Detective Denis Ryan was transferred from Melbourne to the regional town of Mildura where he soon ran into a familiar face – local priest, Father John Day. The two had encountered one another before during a less than savoury incident in St Kilda several years prior.

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0:00.0	Just the warning, today's episode deals with child sex abuse.
0:18.2	It will not be suitable for all listeners.
0:22.5	Father John Day was a Catholic priest who graduated from Corpus Christi College in Melbourne,
0:28.0	1927.
0:29.9	The first Christian priest is one of Australia's leading priesthood training colleges.
0:34.9	Day was given his first parish in 1936 at Colac, about 150 kilometres southwest of Melbourne.
0:43.2	He spent three years there before being transferred north to Ararat, which is a two hour drive
0:48.1	away.
0:49.6	He spent nine years there before being transferred to Horsham, a further hour north.
0:55.2	The two years at Horsham, they found himself heading back south to Beach Forest where he
0:59.8	spent two years.
1:02.1	From there he went to Apollo Bay, a coastal town in southern Victoria.
1:08.5	It was during his two years at Apollo Bay that day he first met police officer, Dennis
1:13.4	Ryan.
1:15.7	Dennis Ryan joined the Victorian Police Force in 1952.
1:19.9	He had a strong Catholic faith and was a regular church girl with his family.
1:24.9	Out of the academy he was sent to Russell Street police headquarters where he did various
1:28.8	duties and learnt the robes of policing.
1:31.8	All new recruits were sent to Russell Street at that time.
1:36.2	After finishing up at Russell Street, Dennis Cutie's teeth working on patrol in St.
1:40.0	Kilda, only eight kilometres outside of Melbourne Central Business District.
1:44.9	It was 1956.
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